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How to change the MAC address on Linux

Sunday 15 November 2009, by Nadir SOUALEM

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Keywords:

HWaddr , ifconfig , mac address .

If you are wondering how to change the MAC address of your ethernet adaptor(eth0) or your wifi device (wlan) under Linux, its here !!!

I suppose you want to get the mac address 00:11:22:33:44:55 Connect through console using superuser root:

ifconfig eth0 down

ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55

ifconfig eth0 up

ifconfig eth0 |grep HWaddr